Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Peter Kirk"<peter_kirk AT sil.org>]

Well, Ian, why didn't you start with these specific arguments instead 
of all the ad hominem stuff? Don't you think that would have been more 
scholarly? Mind you, I would like to see more specific data here, the 
publications or catalogue numbers for the continuous lines of high 
priests and the "one totally damning little text". Otherwise we cannot 
determine the boundary between the raw data and Kitchen's (no doubt 
very scholarly, but not infallible) interpretation.

Peter Kirk


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Subject: Re: FW: Just a clarification
Author:  <mc2499 AT mclink.it> at Internet
Date:    13/02/2000 17:24


At 16.01 13/02/00 +0100, Niels Peter Lemche wrote: 
>Did Kitchen ever make a review of it?

Here's a little on Kitchen regarding his participation in Rohl's video:

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In particular, Kitchen said he demonstrated evidence which directly 
contradicted Rohl's views. With Rohl's main focus on Egyptian chronology, 
Kitchen's specialty, he provided Rohl with primary evidence from several 
vital genealogies of the 21st and 22nd Egyptian dynasties. In addition, he 
presented continuous lines of high priests for Amun (in Thebes) and Ptah 
(in Memphis) going through both dynasties. Kitchen said Rohl communicated 
he was unaware of this material. Furthermore, Kitchen answered Rohl's two 
great anomalies in Egyptian chronology?the cache of royal reburial near 
Deir el-Bahri and the lack of Apis bull burials for the 21st Dynasty.

Finally, Kitchen provided parallels in the Assyrian King List, The Assyrian 
Eponym List and the Babylonian King list, with crosslinks illustrated by 
the synchronous history and Chronicle P. Additional links to New Kingdom 
Egypt and Hatti, plus markers showing which kings of Assyria successively 
built in the national shrine at Assur, also bolstered Kitchen's case.

As a coup de grace, Kitchen brought out what he called "one totally damning 
little text" (personal communication) from Deir el-Medina in west Thebes. 
It precisely dated the Nile inundation at a specific time, an occurrence 
which takes place only once every 1460 years. As far as Kitchen is 
concerned, Rohl's proposed "corrections" of ancient Near Eastern 
chronologies was dead in the water (Kitchen 1995: xlii-xlvi).

Gary Byers

From:  http://www.christiananswers.net/abr/scoop.html

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Ian